The other major player is the National Telecommunicaitons & Information Administration

"A coordinated federal effort to oversee the DTV transition is essential," they wrote, and asked the president ot establish the task force "immediately."

Neither FCC Chairman Kevin Martin nor the head of the NTIA, first John Kneuer and now Meredith Baker, have backed earlier calls for a task force, arguing the two agencies are communicating, and that a government command and control overseer might not be suited to an operation that needed to be flexible and responsive to differing constituencies.